Exactly, Dude.
The problem with ratings sites (just in general terms) is that there are MOSTLY only two responses in "crowdsourcing" efforts like that.
1. REALLY angry people who are highly motivated for personal reasons to be negative-negative-negative (and if you look at Amazon reviews for pretty much anything, you get some idea what I'm driving at there-- a lot of the time, those reviews have NOTHING to do with the quality or suitability of a particular product, so much as the stupid assumptions of the person writing)
2. Paid shills who write such glowing commentary that it would be frankly delusional if it were real.
By the way-- OUR school URGES parents to do #2, there, going so far as to offer up suggested verbiage and links to a variety of sites to post our "reviews." Really not kidding. That has been a recent phenomenon, since Pearson's acquisition. That's the problem, though-- an appealing, successful charter WILL get gobbled up by those who see dollar signs.
we have had strong anti-trust legislation, preventing the amassing of money, power, and control by monoliths
How's that been workin' out?
